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Monday, July 18, 2011

How To Make Personalized Google+ URL

Google+ doesn't offers a vanity URL for your profile, unlike Facebook and Twitter. Instead of vanity URL Google+ has used a long number string to denote users, which make it difficult to share it with friends (eg:106612582649701414961)

The reason Google+ doesn’t use vanity URLs is because those could lead to spammers figuring out the email addresses of millions of Google+ users (since many Google Accounts are linked to Gmail accounts).